Fr. Eamonn Sweeney

Fr. Eamonn Sweeney talks about growing up in Ballycroy, Co. Mayo and about earliest memories of informal fooball playing. He talks about his involvement in handball when he was in secondary school in Mayo. He got involved in Gaelic football later when he was in St Peter's seminary in Wexford in the 1960s and he recalls memories of playing and attending matches from that period. He also discusses the relationship between the GAA and the clergy and the restrictions around priests playing football at the time. After he was ordained he moved to Scotland where he worked as a parish priest and he explains the revival of the GAA there which was still very small when he first came. He explains what Gaelic football and the GAA mean to him and to the Irish community in Scotland.